Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspxToday we released the March CTP of Visual Studio codename ”Orcas”.
Our goal with Orcas is to build the best tool set for Windows Vista and Office 2007, expand our role-based and team offerings, deliver complete AJAX support and deliver revolutionaryen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1953932Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:05:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1953932Prakash<p>Soma,</p>
<p>I think its time for you to include a captcha/nobot(ajax) on the comments page. Lots of spam messages in every post.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Prakash</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1953932" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1946559Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:54:40 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1946559lilies<p>ITs Like ME</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1945541" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1945266Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:16:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1945266ksuanbij<p>Hello!</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1941896" width="1" height="1">.NET 3.5 Preview Has Been Releasedhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1927905Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:03:06 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1927905Yama Kamyar<p>If you have not even updated your Visual Studio 2003 to the 2005 you may be for bits of a catching...</p>
<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1927905" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1903818Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:27:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1903818S.Somasegar<p>Hi Mohamed,</p>
<p>Glad to hear that things are working for you. &nbsp;</p>
<p>-somasegar</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1903818" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1899405Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:47:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1899405Mohamed Meligy<p>Soma,</p>
<p>I got it to work!</p>
<p>I first tired uninstalling VVS2005SP1Vista Update, and reinstalling it. This didn't help anything.</p>
<p>Later I thought: The component that fails in my case (itks different in each case on channel and msdn forums) is Microsoft Web Designer Tools. I had access to Expression Web Designer as part of my work but I havevnt't installed it before, so, I tried to install it and see. Yes, in my case, this did the trick :):):).</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1899405" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1898610Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:15:55 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1898610Mohamed Meligy<p>Hey again,</p>
<p>Sorry for repeating the same question, but, how come I keep seeing more and more people online that had it working on different editions of vista?</p>
<p>Is there something specific that could be prevevnting it? Right now I have VS2005Pro &nbsp;+ Team Explorer addin + SQL2005Expr + SQL2005Devevloper + WF&amp;.NET3Tools for VS2005 + OFfice2007.</p>
<p>This might sound much but is pretty standard for any developer who has work to do with .NET 3.0, however, may it Orcas installation work if I remove any of those &nbsp;(and will i be able to reinstall what I removed afterwards)? OR/AND is there anything else I can do to get it to work ??</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1898610" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1848180Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:51:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1848180Chad<p>Will this CTP be available in the MSDN subscriber downloads? &nbsp;The individual downloads keep timing out for me, so I would like to use the download manager available for subscriber downloads. &nbsp;I usually have good luck as it restarts and picks up where it left off.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1848180" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1844083Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:14:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1844083S.Somasegar<p>Hi Mohamed,</p>
<p>With this CTP, we have a problem installing the &quot;red bits&quot; changes on Vista with Orcas on the run-time side. &nbsp;That's why this CTP doesn't enable you to natively install on Vista. &nbsp;You have to install the VPC image on Vista to try out this CTP.</p>
<p>The team is working on fixing this issue as we speak. &nbsp;With a subsequent CTP, we will enable this so that you can install Orcas natively on a Vista machine.</p>
<p>-somasegar</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1844083" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1844061Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:11:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1844061S.Somasegar<p>Hi Mikael,</p>
<p>The Atlas binaries are in there, but the design-time (VS) templates aren't and hte tool doesn't migrate projects yet - so it looks like Atlas doesn't exist. &nbsp;You should be able to open and edit as ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 project in the CTP though.</p>
<p>The team is working on completing this as we speak and in subsequent CTPs you should see more of this stuff working.</p>
<p>-somasegar</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1844061" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1841217Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:21:03 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1841217Mohamed Meligy<p>Hey Soma,</p>
<p>I've a question about the self-extract files. The download page for them says that the supported operating systems are only Windows 2003 and XP. Is that right ? Then how come while this is supposed to be the first &quot;real&quot; Vista targetted version of VS?</p>
<p>If it's supported on Vista (apart from why this is not said then), then what are things to check if the instllation fails on a typical Vista machine (no special software or so), while works on other XP machines using same downloded files ??</p>
<p>When I had the problem on my machine, I googled to find others at Channel9 and MSDN forums having the same complain. Channel9 guys made me notice the supported operating systems list on the self-extract files download page. I blogged about it and got a number of comments of those who had it working on their Vista machines!!</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1841217" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1832409Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:03:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1832409rasyadi<p>Hi Thomas,</p>
<p>Are you sure you were downloaded the correct files?</p>
<p>It happened to me last time. It seems that the .rar file I downloaded corrupted. But I have mixed those filex with different released. do you get what I mean? </p>
<p>They have released 4 different set of files to be downloaded:</p>
<p>1. VSTS with VPC image</p>
<p>2. VSTS with TFS with VPC image</p>
<p>3. VSTS self extracted</p>
<p>4. VSTS with TFS self extracted</p>
<p>What can I suggest to you is to check your files name. Look at its name convention. The file name is different between each other. I got noticed I've mixed the wrong files when I saw differences in its naming convention. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Rasyadi</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1832409" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1815362Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:28:20 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1815362Thomas Zitzler<p>Hi Somasegar,</p>
<p>are there checksums available for the files (VSMar07CTP_TFSVSTS_9PartsTotal...)? I downloaded them but extracting fails. I don't want to download the whole stuff again, so it would be nice to find out which one is corrupted.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Thomas</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1815362" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1798401Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:22:07 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1798401Mikael Söderström<p>Hi Somasegar,</p>
<p>I have been testing the CTP for a couple of days now, but I still can&#180;t find any AJAX support? Do I need to install the ASP.NET AJAX extensions to use it, or can I add a reference to a specific dll?</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Mikael S&#246;derstr&#246;m</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1798401" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1790276Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:24:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1790276S.Somasegar<p>Hi Yuvi,</p>
<p>We will have Express versions of the product at Beta1. &nbsp;The teams are working on keeping the size manageable. &nbsp;Let's see how much progress we make in this time-frame.</p>
<p>-somasegar</p>
<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1790276" width="1" height="1">.Net 3.5http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1789772Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:15:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1789772Connecting Systems the Microsoft Way<p>This week Microsoft released the Visual Studio codename &quot;Orcas&quot; March 2007 CTP and this is the first...</p>
<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1789772" width="1" height="1">Visual Studio 코드명 "Orcas" 2007년 3월 CTPhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1789052Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:16:03 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1789052bkchung's WebLog<p>Somasegar's WebLog : Visual Studio &quot;Orcas&quot; March CTP is available now 이전과 마찬가지로 VPC와 인스톨본 두가지 형태로 제공됩니다:</p>
<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1789052" width="1" height="1">Visual Studio &quot;Orcas&quot; CTP de marshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1788846Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:22:03 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1788846Luc Gauthier's Weblogs<p>Le nouveau CTP est maintenant disponible. Vous pouvez consulter l'annonce officielle sur le site de Somasegar.</p>
<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1788846" width="1" height="1">Just got used to .NET 3.0? Well 3.5 is nearly here...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1785802Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:11:16 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1785802Insane World<p>Visual Studio codename &amp;quot;Orcas&amp;quot; March 2007 CTP has been released, and it contains aspects of</p>
<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1785802" width="1" height="1">re: Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available nowhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2007/02/28/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available-now.aspx#1782432Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:04:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1782432Steve Teixeira -- MSFT<p>&gt;&gt;lots of fun .net stuff, but nothing exciting for the unmanaged world :(&lt;&lt;</p>
<p>Hi Cory,</p>
<p>I don't think we've been as effective at communicating the native code features of Orcas as we have some of the managed stuff, but Orcas does include some cool features for native code developers as well. &nbsp;To name a few...</p>
<p>1. MFC support for new Vista controls, common dialogs, and Vista UI guidelines (actually, we not only added support for Vista stuff, but also some of the XP-era stuff that we had yet to do)</p>
<p>2. Dialog editor support for new Vista controls</p>
<p>3. Improved build throughput with the ability to compile multiple files in parallel within a project</p>
<p>4. Class designer support in the IDE</p>
<p>5. Updates to Spy++ to support Vista and 64-bit</p>
<p>Related to how native code, we also have a few features in Orcas that make it easier to interoperate between native and managed code, including:</p>
<p>1. STL/CLR: An implementation of the C++ STL, including containers, iterators, and algorithms that can be used with C++/CLI managed code and also interop with other managed languages</p>
<p>2. The Marshaling Libraries, which handle the dirty work of converting between commonly used native and managed types</p>
<p>3. Managed incremental build, which can dramatically improve incremental build speed for mixed or managed solutions</p>
<p>Orcas was actually a fairly modest release for the VC++ team, as we have a good chunk of the team dedicated to longer-lead, post-Orcas work. &nbsp;Expect to see the fruits of this work begin to appear in the next major VS release after Orcas.</p>
<p>I also want to point out that native code development is the #1 focus area for the VC++ product. &nbsp;You can learn more about our product strategy and vision by checking out this Channel9 video that Bill Dunlap and I did recently: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=283081">http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=283081</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Steve Teixeira</p>
<p>Group Program Manager, VC++</p>
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